Recovered illustrator file from a hard drive will not open

Hi,
I just recovered some illustrator CS2/CS3 files that were accidently deleted from a hard drive using Recuva version 1.39.509. The files were detected as being in excellent shape and they are recognized as illustrator files in windows. But I can not open them!
Please help! These are months of work that could be lost!
Dear Jacob - I dont know why the previous discussion disappeared. I have tried all your suggestions, including following the instructions for recovering illustrator files... None of them worked! I am at a loss! Again, every single one of the recoverd illustrator files can not be read, are supposedly 100% healthy from the softwared used to recover them, but they do not open! Other files such as word adn images were recovered successfully - I dont understand what is missing here!

TG,
As you can see on the pages mentioned in post #3, you can open the AI files as text files, and then you can see and compare the lines of code building each file.
The first part of each file is the wrapping defining the structure, folllowed by the part defining the artwork. Some of the artwork part may be corrupted, but more likely the structure part at the beginning is (it may be as little part snipped off at the very start).
So you can copy (at least some of) the part of code defining the artwork from the corrupted file and insert into the sound file after the initial part.
You may compare the two files and try to work out which part to move and where, using the file parts shown on those Adobe pages as guides.
I hope this was not too woolly.

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